On Dec 20, 2007 12:03 PM, David Tonhofer <redhatter@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > .........but can I run no-longer-subscribed Red Hat Enterprise > instantiations or not? I am not a lawyer, however I believe that you can - per direction from RH legal at the Summit - but IF AND ONLY IF you have *no* currently subscribed systems. That is the barrier to not being bound to the subscription agreement, which states 1 machine takes 1 entitlement. The agreement applies to an entity, not an installation - therefore if you have even a single subscription, all installations in your organization require a subscription. The reason the people mention that you can keep using the 30-day eval, I think, is that they assume that you have no other relationship with RH, and have entered into no other agreements with them other than the subscription agreement for the eval, which expires when you no longer have a subscription (i.e. 30 days). After that 30 days has elapsed, I'm under the impression that you could install 5 billion copies if that's what you'd like to do, since you are no longer bound by the subscription agreement. However, you cannot redistribute the software, because RH has given you no trademark license, nor does any constituent license. I hope that made things as clear as mud :). FWIW, for testing and non-production servers that you don't plan to buy a subscription for, I would just use CentOS from the beginning and avoid this entire discussion. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
